Partial Correlation Coefficients: Cross-Country Evidence
Cross Country Evidence on Consumption Persistence
... 5. The level of persistence of the private consumption This section measures the level of persistence of aggregate and disaggregate private consumption for Italy, the United Kingdom and Norway. A simple visual inspection ...
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Rating in Microfinance: Cross Country Evidence
... the correlation between individual raters and subsidized rating is high, these results are not robust—adding FinAid makes the negative coefficient on rater4 statistically insignificant but makes the impact of ...
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Rating in Microfinance: Cross-Country Evidence
... the coefficients on rating and subsidized rating are not statistically significant in any of the specifications, MFIs in LA rated by ACCION attracted more ...
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A spectral analysis of the cross-country consumption correlation puzzle
... frequencies, with evidence of risk-sharing being more apparent outside that band, particularly at higher frequencies. 3. A Band-Pass Filter Approach As decompositions of growth-rate correlations, the breakdowns ...
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Export pricing and the cross-country correlation of stock prices
... The elasticity of substitution between goods is set at 6, which implies a 20 per cent mark-up, consistent with the estimates of Rotemberg and Woodford (1995). The consumption elasticity of money demand (1/ε) is chosen to ...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
... Maddison 1992; and Carroll and Weil 1994) prove robust positive correlation between saving and growth. Another factor producing considerable impact on economic growth is level of public debt. In the traditional ...
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Financial development and innovation: Cross-country evidence
... while country-level innovation growth ( CountryTech) has a mean value of ...autocorrelation coefficients of ...average country has an economic freedom index ...
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Intelligence and defense spending: a cross country evidence
... Including control variables in models 3 to 6 yields statistically significant coefficients for IQ and IQ 2 . After controlling for suggested antecedents of military expenditures (model 6) we find that the turning ...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
... Maddison 1992; and Carroll and Weil 1994) prove robust positive correlation between saving and growth. Another factor producing considerable impact on economic growth is level of public debt. In the traditional ...
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Urbanization and Human Development Index: Cross country evidence
... The regression models 1-6 show that adult literacy rate, FDI, per-capita GDP, and life expectancy at birth have a positive and statistically significant effect (at 1 % level) on the HDI. For example, the coefficient ...
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Decentralization (localization) and corruption : new cross-country evidence
... the correlation be- tween wealth and decentralization is positive even after controlling for other factors, which are included in the right hand side of our ...
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Dollarization in Tanzania: empirical evidence and cross-country experience
... Empirical Evidence and Cross-Country Experience 20 Loss of seigniorage: Full dollarization eliminates possibility for governments to finance fiscal deficit with seigniorage - the revenue associated ...
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Information Sharing, Lending and Defaults: Cross-Country Evidence
... negative correlation with French origin; that is, the countries whose legal system is rooted in the French civil code are also those that afford the weakest legal protection to ...
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When is growth pro-poor? Cross-country evidence
... the coefficients on these variables to save space, but they generally enter negatively and usually significantly in all specificiations, consistent with available evidence on convergence in both of these ...
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Information sharing, lending and defaults: Cross-country evidence
... Sections 3 and 4 describe our data set, which we collected via questionnaires di- rected to private credit bureaus and central banks. Borrower coverage and the type of data exchanged vary considerably over time and ...
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The Effect of Remittances on Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence
... 3.2. Remittances, economic volatility and the prevalence of child labor The results of the estimation of the model (2) are presented in Table 2. Two models are estimated depending on the indicator of economic volatility ...
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Aid and fertility: What does the cross-country evidence show?
... a correlation between aid and economic growth and a robust positive correlation between aid and fertility rates are consistent with the Malthusian and the neoclassical growth theories where some factors of ...
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Social capital, growth and poverty: a survey of cross-country evidence
... BI coefficients decline somewhat, suggesting that part but not all of the growth effects of political stability and bureaucratic efficiency are attributable to efficiency and innovation ...
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Wavelet coefficients cross-correlation analysis of times series
... Abstract. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is becoming very widely used in the analysis of discrete time stochastic processes. In this paper we explore the maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT) which ...
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Agglomeration and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence
... World Cross-Section Sample Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verte, Cen- tral African ...
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